Aldridge Bousfield

Pete (Aldridge) Bousfield
Born(1941-04-05)April 5, 1941
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
DiedOctober 4, 2020(2020-10-04) (aged 79)
Alma materM.I.T.
Known forBousfield localization
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Algebraic Topology
InstitutionsBrandeis University, University of Chicago
Thesis Higher Order Suspension Maps for Non-Additive Functors  (1966)
Doctoral advisorDaniel Kan

Aldridge Knight Bousfield (April 5, 1941 October 4, 2020), known as "Pete", was an American mathematician working in algebraic topology, known for the concept of Bousfield localization.